PD is good #NKFClinicals
There is no difference in mortality PD v HD
As we have expanded the PD population we are not adding people that are bad candidates that may do worse. Not happening. New additions are doing fine. #NKFClinicals
Wow. @rajmehrotra1122 is giving a masterclass on delivering a compelling keynote. Great slides. Powerful message. #NKFClinicals
The second half of his talk will focus on symptom management.
So much research focused on mortality, but one of the top complaints in fatigue. We should be paying attention to dialysis associated fatigue. It doesn’t always have to be mortality. #NKFClinicals
Doctors think the solution to every problem is more dialysis
Patients want the least amount of dialysis necessary. #NKFClinicals
Depression should he treated and addressed regardless of the downstream effect. #NKFClinicals
Not all uremic symptoms gets better with dialysis.
Appetite does improve with dialysis
Dyspnea gets better with dialysis
Total number of symptoms does not go done with dialysis
Depression does not improve with dialysis
Michael Emmett on electrolyte artifacts
Pre-analytical and analytical #NKFClinicals
Starting with pseudohyponatremia
These are real cases
The osmolality was 294, so there is a huge gap. 44ish
Implies Artifactual decrease in sodium
Her triglycerides were >6000 #NKFClinicals
Note the different between HCO3 and tCO2 should be closer than 19 and 9. #NKFClinicals
I presented a poster at #NKFClinicals. This came from working with ViforCSL on the KALM-1 and KALM-2 meta-analysis of the pivotal trials of difelikefalin for CKD associated pruritus (CKDaP). About a year ago we brainstomed what other lessons could we could pull from the data.
A question we had was how quickly do people respond to the drug, or put more practically, if you start a patient on difelikefalin and a month later they are still having intense itch, how likely will it be that they still could respond?
Look at the only figure on the poster and focus on the bars, this gives the fraction of people who will ultimately respond to difelikefalin who have responded at 4 weeeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks.
Never in the history of medicine has so much been done, by so many, so incompetently, with so little consequence as in the treatment of severe hyponatremia. #Tweetorial 1/10
You shouldn't correct hyponatremia too fast. The speed limit is 8 mmol/L per day. We are terrible at it. In George et al, 41% of 1,490 pts were corrected faster than 8 mEq/L. Look at the poor slobs at the left of the nomogram whose Na actually went down 🤪 2/10
Thankfully this incompetence is rarely punished. Of the 611 (41% of 1490) patients who over-corrected in the George trial, only 7 developed osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS). Screw the sodium correction and you can get away with it 99% of the time. 3/10
The begining of my medical career was dominated by HIV
Start med school in 91. Magic Johnson announces he is HIV+
MS3 med students do blood draws on HIV+ patients (phlebotomy refuses)
MS4 lost my first patient, advanced dementia HIV
Graduated in '95, peak HIV, 50k US deaths
The whole clincal world was HIV, but you would go to the textbooks and they would still be calling HIV HLTV3. It was bonkers. It was in this envirnoment that UpToDate crushed Harrisons.
Then during residency HAART emerges and the whole thing melts away in a matter of years. All that knowledge about opportunistic infections becomes less a critical part of IM and selective ID knowledge.